They both claim Abraham as their progenitor. Physically alike to the outside eye, it is difficult to tell one from the other but for ethnic differences such as the shape of the beard, Muslim skullcap (Taqiyah) or Jewish kippah, and other cultural peculiarities, they are cousins but can hardly tolerate each other. Providence has fated Read More…
Wole Olaoye
Political arsonists on the prowl!
There is a negative pattern that has been established by some personages under the canopy of religion with the ultimate aim of spreading falsehood and engendering hate between tribes, tongues and faiths in Nigeria. We are all supposed to bow and tremble before their sanctimonious thrones because theirs is the voice from Above. Many analysts Read More…
Timely Passports & Concrete Roads
Let’s talk governance. There’s something to cheer for a change: Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo had promised to clear the backlog of 204,332 passports outstanding at the corruption-ridden Nigerian Immigration Service within two weeks. The goal was achieved in three weeks. By Nigerian standards, that achievement is a cause for celebration. We all remember all the Read More…
Sleaze On Rails
Nigerian corruption is aeroamphibious. It permeates air, land and sea. The other day, when it was reported that an aircraft was mercifully grounded because its tank was laden with a mixture of aviation fuel and water, nobody laughed. I can swear to that because the usual “happiest people on earth” who cobble online jokes out Read More…
Et Tu, Ireland?
Since man left the Garden of Eden, there has been no blight more despicable than the evil of racism. Based on the fallacy that the worth of a person is dependent on the colour of his skin, this tempest has been responsible for countless crimes against humanity and the polarisation of the world based on Read More…
Baba’s Logorrhoea
In many ways, High Chief Olusegun Matthew Okikiola Ogunboye Aremu Obasanjo is a great man. In many ways, too, his plebeian irascibility makes him look like a medieval proletarian who gatecrashed into modern high society and feels obliged to play Orunmila. In case you didn’t know, Orunmila is the Yoruba god of wisdom and knowledge. Read More…
Jackhammer Governance
I am not in the habit of poking my nose into affairs that don’t concern me, except that when a fart is released in one corner of the room, it will inevitably spread around in obedience to the direction of the wind. Ogun State may be comparatively small in the Nigerian community of states, but Read More…
Autogas: Where’s the N250 Billion?
The removal of the fuel subsidy announced by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023, need not have resulted in the mass misery that has further alienated Nigerians from their government, if only the plans ceremoniously rolled out by the immediate past government to provide succour for the people before the fuel subsidy was abolished, Read More…
Memo To Their Excellencies
Your Excellencies, greetings from Citizenville. It is not fashionable that anyone from this valley of citizens would nurse the pretence of counselling you as you perch on your high pedestals all over Africa. But times have changed. This is 2023. Many of you still live in the era of England’s King James I (reigned 1603–1625), who famously Read More…
If democracy comes to grief, blame politicians!
There are some bitter truths that those in the temporary house of power may not like to hear. One such truth is the fact that democracy is not a surefire assurance that a country will prosper. Autocracy, its supposed opposite, is also not guaranteed to lead to misery. If Democracy were an infallible system of Read More…